Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

An unexpected discovery in Antarctica is challenging long-standing scientific assumptions. A massive egg fossil, recently ...

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery ... safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur—a marine reptile that lived during ...

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

Paleontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what's so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

Leard and Palmer are experienced scientists pursuing their doctoral degrees in earth and atmospheric sciences at MSU while ...